National Alliance for Democracy Action Alert follows asking that we contact the Senate Finance Committee to support a public option to Sen. Baucus’s Health Care bill. As noted even though we support Single Payer, a public option is needed in this bill to support our efforts. Please make the call right away.
David e. Delk, Alliance [...]
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The anti-tax zealots in Oregon have been successful in referring the two tax fairness bills passed by the Oregon legislature to the voters. One bill increased the corporate minimum tax from $10 to $150 with a sliding scale above that. The other bill increased the personel income tax to be imposed on the wealthiest of the wealthy.
These two measure would enact a measure of tax fairness in Oregon.
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This post is written by Joe Miller.
On the first day of an intended year-long test to see if Cascade Locks well water was suitable for raising fish, well water pumped into a test pond contained chlorine due to an equipment malfunction, and all of the privately purchased rainbow trout fry in the pond were killed. [...]
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Mark Karlin is the founder and editor of BuzzFlash.com and his recent column is copied below. The important thing to get from this piece is that we are witnessing the bigot’s backlash to having elected a black man president and that Obama must stop trying to placate these bigots because he cannot. Further, that his model is, and should be, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who won impressive advances equal human rights for African Americans (and all of the various other human rights movements to follow) by standing for his beliefs and enlisting the active support of “we, the People.” So, there are two questions. Will Obama stop trying to placate the rightwing bigots who are stirred up by corporate financed rightwing hate media and call for a mass populist movement? The second question is, will you respond?
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